ALEXANDRIA TWP. — The Alexandria Township documents found in Phil Izzo’s garage were copies “he was permitted to possess,” the township said in a prepared statement.

An investigation into alleged “official misconduct” by Raritan Township Construction Official Phil Izzo turned up some documents in his garage in Kingwood Township pertaining to the Hudocks’ house in Alexandria Township.

The Hudocks have been unable to obtain from the township or the builder a set of missing blueprints to correct a defective foundation. The investigators’ discovery in the garage did not include the missing blueprints, the township said.

Izzo had been Alexandria’s construction official, but a few months ago he was succeeded by Mark Farneski and took a lesser role of building subcode official. The Hudocks’ attorney was notified of the documents found in the garage on Aug. 7.

“Representatives of Alexandria Township reviewed them and confirmed that the copies found by the Prosecutor’s Office were Mr. Izzo’s set of documents produced/distributed as part of an appeal by the builder, Hallmark Country Homes, to the Hunterdon County Board of Construction Appeals concerning the Hudocks’ case, which he was permitted to possess,” the township said.

“The township has a letter dated Oct. 5, 2012, from the then-township attorney enclosing these documents, which states that the original, and thus ‘official’ set of these documents, was given to the township clerk, and copies were also given to the Construction Board of Appeals, the builder’s attorney, (and) Nicole Voigt (attorney for the Hudocks), at the same time they were given to Mr. Izzo.”

But Karen Hudock contends that “Mr. Izzo should not have any documents that are the property of the township in his garage regardless, especially considering he is no longer building inspector.”

The Hudocks reside on Route 513 (the Everittstown-Pittstown Road). Their house, built in 2005, has a defective foundation and the state has ordered the builder to fix it. But the key to getting the problem corrected may be in obtaining blueprints used to build it. So far, except for an uncertified drawing the builder produced at a hearing last winter, neither the township nor the builder has produced the blueprints.

Besides official misconduct, which is a second-degree crime, Izzo has been charged with “misapplication of entrusted property,” third degree. According to the complaint warrants filed on Aug. 1 by Raritan Township police, Izzo removed personnel files from the Municipal Building in an effort to implicate another employee “as if they were the one that removed said personnel file in an attempt to cause that employee to be terminated.”